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o\(amall Hifiory : 



Experiment 

 Solitary tou- 

 ching Bedies 

 Liquefiable, 

 and not uqbe- 

 fiable. 

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Experiment 

 So'itary,tou- 

 ching Bodies 

 Fragile and 

 Tough. 



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Knowledge will be ever a Wfindring and Indigefled Thing, if it be bur a Com- 

 mixture of a few Notions,tha.t are at hand and occurre and not excited i rom 

 fullicient Number of inftances 5 and thole well collated. 



The (onfeslencies of Bodies are very Divers : Denfe, %are, Tan- 

 gible, (Pneumattcal • Volatile 5 Fixed . Determinate } Not Determi- 

 nate, Hard } Soft; CleaYmg , Not Cleaving 5 Congelable, Not Cow- 

 ^e/d^/e • Liquefiable • Not Liquefiable ; Fragile , Towgfe . Flexible, 

 Inflexible • TraBile , or to be drawn forth in length , IntraHile • 

 Porous, Solide • , and Smooth , Vnequal ; Venous, and Fibrous y 

 and with Onww , £w£/>e ; And divers Others ; All which to 

 referre to Heat , and Co/^ 5 and Moijiure , and Drought is a 

 Compendious and In-utile Speculation. But of thele fee princi- 

 pally our Abecedarian l<[atur^ And otherwife Sparfum in this our 

 S>/"tu Sylvarum : Neverthelefs,in fome good part, We fhall han- 

 dle divers of them now prcfently . 



^Iquefi able, and Not Liquefiable, proceed froin thefe C<i«/>5 : Liquefaftion is 

 evercaufedby the Detention oi the Spirits, which play within the zWy 3 

 and Open it. Therefore fuch Bodies as are more Turgide of Spirit; Or that 

 have their Spirits more Straitly imprisoned ; Or a jain that hold them Bet- 

 ter Pleaded and Content; Are Liquefiable : for thefe three Eifpofitions of .Boafos 

 doe arreft the Emifjion of the Spirits. An Example of the firft two Pro- 

 perties is in Afc£<s/s,And of the laft in Greafe, Pitch, Sulphur, Butter, Wax, &c. 

 The Difpofition not to Liquefie proceedeth from the Eafie Em ij] 'ion of the 

 Spirits , whereby the Grower Parts contract; And therefore, Bodies Jqune of 

 S^/Ww 5. Or which part wit 11 their Spirits more Willingly, are not Liquefiable; 

 As ^oo^, CAijy, Free-Stone, &c. But yet, even many of thofe Bodies, that will 

 not Melt, or will hardly Aft//-, will notwithstanding Soften • As Iron in the 

 Forge 3 And a SftVfc bathed in Hot Allies ■> which thereby becommeth 

 more Flexible. Moreover, there are fome Bodies, which do Liquefie, or dif- 

 lolve by Fire, Pis Metals, Wax,&c. And other Bodies, which dillolve in 

 Water s As Salt,Sugar, &c.The &tt*/>ofthe former proceedeth from the Dila- 

 tation of the Spirits by Heat : The Caufeoi the latter proceedeth from the 

 Opening of the Tangible PdWywhich defire to receive the Liquour.. Againe, 

 there are fome Bodies that dtflolve with both ; As Gumme, &c. And thofe 

 be fuch Bodies , as on the one fide have good ftore of Spirit ; And on the 

 other fide, have the Tangible Parts Indigent of Moijiure; For the former 

 helpeth to the Dilating of the Spirits by the Fire; And the latter ftimulateth 

 the Parts to recive the Liquour. 



f~\F Bodies feme are Fragile; And fome are Tough, and Not Fragile; And in 

 the Breaking, fome Fragile Bodies break but where the Force is: Some 

 Chatter and flie in many Pieces. Of Fragility the Caufe is an Impotency to be 

 Expended: And therefore Stone is more Fragile then Metal; And foFiflile 

 Barth is more Fragile than Crude Earth, and Dry Wood than Ofw. And the 

 Cau'eoi this Un-aptneJ? to Extenfion, is the Smaii Quantity of Spirits ; (For it 

 is the Spirit that furthereth the Extenfion or Dilatation of Bodies;) And it 

 is ever Concomitant with Porofity, and with DrineJJe in the Tangible Parts; j 



Contrariwise j 



